OBJECTIVE Medication noncompliance is a significant problem for effective pharmacologic treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). Attempts to explore predictors of compliance have primarily focused on demographic characteristics; for the most part, these have been shown to be unrelated to compliance. Conversely, the relation between personality characteristics and compliance has been relati...

The Bellevue and the Hagley Park mental health outpatient clinics in Jamaica serve the majority of psychiatric patients in the country, but there is a dearth of research on medication compliance, which is a very important mental health issue. Medication compliance affects intervention outcomes. Therefore, this study seeks to examine medication compliance among psychiatric patients in Jamaica. A...

The objective of this article was to report on the rate of compliance to medication, sodium use and appointment keeping of hypertensive adults who are attending primary healthcare clinics in Tshwane. Despite the availability of effective management of hypertension globally, non-compliance to management still exists. This article reports on the hypertensive adult’s compliance to medication, sodi...

Good compliance with hypoglycemic therapy is important for diabetes treatment, since positive relationship between medication compliance and glycemic control has been reported. To improve medication compliance, the oral disintegrating tablet technology that facilitates drug administration without water has been employed in various drugs, including voglibose, an alpha glucosidase inhibitor. In t...

BACKGROUND Long-term compliance with pharmacologic treatments for many asymptomatic conditions may be suboptimal, but little is known about compliance with medications used for osteoporosis. This study was undertaken to assess the level and determinants of compliance with drugs prescribed for osteoporosis. METHODS This retrospective cohort study used pharmacy claims data from US Medicare and ...

The purpose of this study was to develop and test a structural model explaining medication compliance of schizophrenia. From a review of the literature, a hypothetical model was developed based on the conceptual framework of the Health Belief Model with medication knowledge, symptom severity and social support as the exogenous variables, and perceived benefits, perceived barriers, substance use...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common type of diabetes.The number of patients with this disease is expected torise in future. Given the increasing prevalence of diabetes, there is an urgent need for the treatment of diabetes and the associated complications. Glycemic control largely depends on compliance with medication therapies. In fact, the most common problem in patien...